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Punishment follows close on crime.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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